Life is so unfair, in fact sometimes ridiculously so. Take the case of yesterday's Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a. Frankenstorm and Superstorm Sandy. It--I refuse to say "she" about a bunch of clouds--broke records for horrible things like highest wall of water anywhere and the deepest flood waters in the New York City subway ever. Today millions of people are either without power, suddenly homeless, stranded in flood waters, stuck in a blizzard or dead, all as a result of the weather. One particularly unlucky group of sick people in a Manhattan hospital, some hooked up to machines in the ICU, had to be evacuated to another hospital because of the lack of a working backup generator. Now that's got to be a really bad storm. Then again, many people caught in the very same storm system fared quite well, never lost power, never got wet, didn't hear a tree fall or see a snowflake.
Here in Maine we got some wind and some rain--nothing to write home about--but our power went out almost immediately and stayed out until this morning. I should say that the power in our neighborhood has also gone out on a sunny spring afternoon with no breeze. One friend in uptown New York City never lost her power, while another who lives downtown is still in the dark. What this proves is that life is incredibly different for each one of us, yet somehow we are all supposed to rally behind one or the other political candidate who would be king...oh come on, it's the same as president. Anyway, with the anointing one week away, and in the footsteps of the Des Moines Register endorsing a Republican for the first time in 40 years, The Daily Droid has decided to publicly endorse a candidate: Denzel Washington.
Although I did not vote for Obama last time, I wanted to. I like having a black president. I think it makes a lot of people feel really good about race relations here in America, and allows a lot of closet racists to feel okay about their true feelings because they voted for the black man, which in turn makes them actually be a little less racist. Also, Denzel is such a great actor, he would surely be up to speed on the presidency in no time. I mean, Ronald Reagan wasn't even a good actor and he pulled it off. Lastly, Denzel is so handsome and articulate, and clean--maybe even as clean as Obama, which Joe Biden himself pointed out four years ago was one of the main reasons Obama was a good choice for president.
As for Vice-President, which matters very little unless the president dies, I would like someone with a sense of humor, easy on the eyes, maybe even a woman. Not Sarah Palin--someone actually smart, who knows a lot about history and politics, and with years of experience in D.C. Thus, I choose Ann Coulter for Vice-President. Lest you think I am crazy, bear in mind that I was without power for 18 hours during Hurricane Sandy. Not only did I have to reset all my digital clocks, which were flashing annoyingly, but my stockpile of organic frozen raspberries--not cheap-- was partially defrosted and turned to mush. Plus my screened porch took quite a beating, with all the decorative seashells perched on the chair rail blown all over the place. Some of them even broke, so I'm not myself today, but then, who could be after Sandy?
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| Does he look ready for Inauguration Day or what? |
Although I did not vote for Obama last time, I wanted to. I like having a black president. I think it makes a lot of people feel really good about race relations here in America, and allows a lot of closet racists to feel okay about their true feelings because they voted for the black man, which in turn makes them actually be a little less racist. Also, Denzel is such a great actor, he would surely be up to speed on the presidency in no time. I mean, Ronald Reagan wasn't even a good actor and he pulled it off. Lastly, Denzel is so handsome and articulate, and clean--maybe even as clean as Obama, which Joe Biden himself pointed out four years ago was one of the main reasons Obama was a good choice for president.
As for Vice-President, which matters very little unless the president dies, I would like someone with a sense of humor, easy on the eyes, maybe even a woman. Not Sarah Palin--someone actually smart, who knows a lot about history and politics, and with years of experience in D.C. Thus, I choose Ann Coulter for Vice-President. Lest you think I am crazy, bear in mind that I was without power for 18 hours during Hurricane Sandy. Not only did I have to reset all my digital clocks, which were flashing annoyingly, but my stockpile of organic frozen raspberries--not cheap-- was partially defrosted and turned to mush. Plus my screened porch took quite a beating, with all the decorative seashells perched on the chair rail blown all over the place. Some of them even broke, so I'm not myself today, but then, who could be after Sandy?
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